Boldness, incontinence and a sort of cruel joviality stood out from the features of the Englishman that wore a rubicund tint from the potations and meats that he was in the habit of swallowing in enormous quantities.
Indeed, his joviality seemed, somehow or other, to have got into the very buttons of his coat, for they fairly winked, and twinkled with joviality.
That the place was famous for its merriment and joviality is sufficiently evidenced by the fact that in former times the parish rates "were mainly supported by the profits of public sports and diversions especially at Whitsuntide".
Though his demeanor towards myself remained quite amicable, it was clear that he judged me, to a certain extent, by my associations; and his simplejoviality was somewhat clouded by an uneasy sense of responsibility.
The man's assumed heartiness, his manner of joviality and good-fellowship, were only the mask of moral turpitude and blackest purpose.
American youngsters delight in the negro tales of "Uncle Remus," and this piece opens with an unbridled joviality that continues to the end.
He gave no utterance to these sentiments; but the excessive joviality they inspired within him, and the merriment they brought upon his shining face, were quite enough for Martin.
The reason of the trouble was a joviality of the sergeant's, who wished forcibly to embrace the bride.
His joviality was altogether foreign to his office.
Bustle, and hurry, and uproar, and joviality prevailed.
All I could do was to carry it off as coolly as possible to save Carette annoyance, and to affect a lightness and joviality which were really not in me.
English nor French nor Norman, but an uncouth mixture of all three, and in a tone which was meant to imply joviality but carried no conviction to the boy's mind.
At such times he suddenly became doubly pleasant and jovial with her; but even this joviality bore something of the nature of the sultry soil from which it grew.
At each fresh tumbler his joviality goes up a step, until at length it reaches a pitch which produces an opposite effect on me, and engenders a depressed fright.
Sir Roger, kindly, perceiving, I suppose, the joviality of the expression with which I am eying the German landscape.
The pirate captain seemed to be possessed by a spirit of fierce and recklessjoviality that day.
The last movement in especial is full of a mocking joviality more frequent with Haydn than Mozart, but it does not lose its hold on the more refined and elevated tone of the preceding movements.
Now, though the Dutchman's joviality is questionable, yet he certainly has at all times been reputed a heavy drinker.
Uproarious applause followed Jack's song, when the joviality of the mourners was interrupted by a summons to attend in the state-room.
His joviality was certainly hard to reconcile with that character of tyrant that seemed to be universally ascribed to him.
It was a procedure that harmonized neither with the relentless scrutiny of his eyes, nor the ultra-joviality of his manner.
He wore his clothes in a slovenly fashion, and had fallen into a lumbering walk as if his boots were always heavy with clay; and there was in him, besides, the heartiness and intolerant joviality of the prosperous farmer.
Miss Ley could imagine that the festivities possible on such an occasion, the handshaking, the making of good cheer, and the obtrusive joviality of the country Englishman, might surpass even the tawdry rejoicings of Yule-tide.
L] [Illustration] There was much laughing and rallying as the honest emblem of Christmas joviality circulated, and was kissed rather coyly by the ladies.
Just at this juncture we were summoned to the drawing-room, and, I suspect, at the private instigation of mine host, whose joviality seemed always tempered with a proper love of decorum.
The thought of the distinguished company he was to entertain that night had changed him temporarily, as with some wave of a fairy wand, into a thing of joviality and benevolence.
Sometimes at morning when a change of season had influenced him, he would slowly stride up and down the porch, seeming to shake with joviality as he walked.
He put down the newspaper, got up, and slowly strode about the room, not shaking withjoviality as he walked.
He remembered me immediately, shook my hand with that captivatingjoviality of manner which is peculiar to him, and invited me into his house.
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